“Believing that Lisp circa 1982 plus some mid-1980s ML tricks thrown in is better than all of the new programming tools (C#, Java) that have been built since then is sort of like being a Holocaust denier.”
Two moral frames works. Commercial and Guardian. From Jane Jacob’s book Systems of Survival.
Moral Syndrome: Commercial
Shun force
Come to voluntary agreements
Be honest
Collaborate easily with strangers and aliens
Compete
Respect contracts
Use initiative and enterprise
Be open to inventiveness and novelty
Be efficient
Promote comfort and convenience
Dissent for the sake of the task
Invest for productive purposes
Be industrious
Be thrifty
Be optimistic
Moral Syndrome: Guardian
Shun [...]
Assembly – Theory/calculus of how to assemble things.
Skype – ?
Blurb – How to use your critics to get blurbs for your book, or website.
Play Money – Blog on the real money markets for online game commodities; see also Unreal Estate Boom, or, The 79th Richest Nation on Earth Doesn’t Exist.
Fox News [...]
In the continuing series on discrimitory pricing and it’s desperate simulation of the rug trader in some foriegn bazzar’s attepts to get you to reveal what the product is really worth to you I present: Air, two dollars or free you decide!
I’m sitting at home so I can sign for a package containing a new expensive toy for me!
I paid extra for shipping so it would get here before I go for a long trip.
The package tracking isn’t working. It worked once. Now it says there are duplicate packages with the same tracking number and [...]
In the best of all possible worlds standards are a win for everybody in the market. A public good. While economists like to get all fixated on the problem that some players freeride on the public good I find the momenteum problem much more interesting. How do you get the emerging standard [...]
It was with great nostolgia I read this posting describing the farming in Delaware. As a child many of our neighbors in northeastern Conneticut would grow the occational well concealed vine of mallows. Moving them every year. As a kid it was fun to try and find them out.
I do have one [...]
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